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obscure music :CLASS IS IN SESSION

StoreTags: bonzo dog doo d, avant guarde

Author: j_chot on November 23 2006

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--> OK CLASS, i GOT MY BEER BUZZ ON, SO WE ARE GOING TO LEARN ABOUT

*****************"THE BONZO DOG DOO DAH BAND"*****************

So you think you know obscure bands? CZECH THIS OUT SON!!!
(you brits are probably better aquainted with this band then the yanks which this class will mostly benefit.)

FROM WIKIPEDIA:.

The Bonzo Dog Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Bonzo Dog Dada Band and, colloquially, as "The Bonzos") was the brainchild of a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz, psychedelic rock, and avant-garde art, the Bonzos came to the attention of a broader British public through a children's television programme, Do Not Adjust Your Set.

...Unusually for a band, the actual date of conception for the Bonzos is known to us: September 25, 1962. It was on that day that Vivian Stanshall (tuba, but later lead vocals along with other wind instruments) and fellow art student Rodney Slater (saxophone) bonded over a transatlantic broadcast of a boxing match between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston.

Although the Bonzos had started out playing jazz, they decided to embrace rock in order to counter claims that they were beginning to sound like The Temperance Seven and The New Vaudeville Band. (In fact Geoff Stephens asked the Bonzos to perform as the New Vaudeville Band. They declined. Former Bonzo Bob Kerr joined The New Vaudeville Band and went on to create his own band, Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band, which combined the lunacy of the early Bonzo sound with music having a great deal in common with the Temperance Seven).

....As the band's fame increased, they appeared as the resident band on Do Not Adjust Your Set, a children's show notable for having several future members of Monty Python's Flying Circus (Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin) and David Jason in the cast.
(end wiki exerpts) read the rest of that article at the link above.
MOVIE TIME!!!
(my favs)

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(yes, they fitted a trouser press with a pickup...)

...and on a fairly introspective note:vivian standshall reading the sea

on a seperate and kinda neat note: the band death cab for cutie was named after one of their songs which they performed in the movie Magical Mystery Tour. (the beatles were a big fan of them)

oh, and here's an interview with the guitarist who tries to be serious: